Agility, speed and flexibility in production networks are required in today's global competition in the flat world. The accuracy of order date delivery promises is a key elem...
Juhani Heilala, Jari Montonen, Arttu Salmela, Pasi...
The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is the best established agent architecture currently available. It has been deployed in many major industrial applications, ranging from fault...
Mark d'Inverno, Michael Luck, Michael P. Georgeff,...
This paper addresses the problem of deciding effectively whether to interrupt a teammate who may have information that is valuable for solving a collaborative scheduling problem. ...
This paper describes the results of applying a modified version of hierarchical task-network (HTN) planning to the problem of declarer play in contract bridge. We represent inform...
Stephen J. J. Smith, Dana S. Nau, Thomas A. Throop
Lean manufacturing aims at flexible and efficient manufacturing systems by reducing waste in all forms, such as, production of defective parts, excess inventory, unnecessary proce...
Durk-Jouke van der Zee, Arnout Pool, Jakob Wijngaa...